Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa 2015

The community planning & design initiative africa 2015 is a design-build competition that draws on the participation of architects, urban planners and designers in africa and in the diaspora to create modern conceptions of african architecture.

SECONDARY DETAILS

The native language of this competition is unknown or unstated. The competition has an English website. This competition orginates from United States of America. The competition was first organized in 2015. This competition was organized 1 times. This competition is annual, it repeats every year. (
Repeats Annually ).

ORGANIZER & SPONSORS

Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa 2015 Competition is organized by
Southern Sahara (
Company or Business ).
There are 1 sponsors total.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS & JOINING

Age limits and restrictions (minimum / maximum age) is not given. Most probably, there are no age restrictions for this design competition. The maximum number of submissions allowed per each participation is not given. It is possible that there are no limits in number of entriesThere are not any restrictions for the number of submissions allowed per each participatnt; you can submit as many designs (infinite / unlimited) as you wish (Multiple submissions requires multiple registrations). Both individual and team submissions are allowed. The maximum team size is not clearly stated, the best-practice is 5 (five) people, but you should re-confirm it. This is an international competition, participants from all over the world can join. The following areas, territories and regions are allowed to join: International. This competition is open to All. This competition is Open To All.

PUBLISHING AND AWARD CEREMONY

Competition results will be published but only the selected submissions and winners will be included in the book. Competition results will be published online, but only the selected submissions and winners will be published online. There will be a Gala Night and Award Ceremony of the competition. We do not know clearly where will the ceremonies take place or where is the location of the gala-night. There will be a temporary physical exhibition of winners. (
We are unclear about where will the exhibition take place or what is the location of the exhibition. ).
Pictures of participants will be published. It is not very clearly stated if private informations such as contact details etc of designers get published in the results book. The result books / annuals are not distributed for free, they are sold to all. Yes, there is a free pr-campaign for winners.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS & DETAILS

Page and file limits for this design competition is not clearly stated.
Exact maximum file size permitted to be submitted is not indicated.
It is not stated whether technical drawings or source files for this competition are required or not.
There is no information whether the competition requires physical submission or not.
There is no clear information on the accepted formats for this design competition.
The submission methods to this competition are not clearly explained.
Technical description of production methodologies is not asked for sure.
The competition call does not state that you need to submit a description of your concept, however it is best practice to submit if it is otherwise stated.
Pixel sizes are not clearly stated. Resolution requirements for the digital images are not clearly stated.
Paper sizes are not clearly stated. Resolution requirements for the printed images are not clearly stated.

Submission Requirements

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The webpage address link (URL) of the complete list of submission requirements is not given.

EVALUATION, JUDGING AND SCORING

It is not clearly stated if the jury will meet physically to perform judging or if it is an online judging process.
The organizers did not explain the selection system / voting mechanism.
The organizers did not state if the competition is open for public voting or not.
The organizers did not state if the competition participants (designers) would recieve/access a score-sheet or not.
The organizers did not indicate whether the competition participants (designers) are able to access or recieve jury notes or not.
The competition organizers did not state if the designs judged by numerical scores or not and whether this information would be available to participants or not.
The organizers did not share whether the competition participants (designers) would be able to access or receive competition statistics.
Judging criteria are not stated.

Evaluation Methodology

URL

: The webpage address (URL) of the document that explains how the designs are evalauated is not given.

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The webpage address link (URL) of the page that lists other jury members is not given.

DESIGNERS' RIGHTS

Organizer of the competition keeps all the rights.
Information regarding publishing opt-in and outs is not disclosed.
No information is available for the return of physical submissions.

WINNERS OBLIGATIONS

Total due fees and other required payments for this competition is not indicated. The obligations of the winners, for example if they do need to pay any more expenses etc, including advertsing, pr-making etc, is not indicated.
The organizers did not indicate wheather the winners have to participate in an event or not.
The organizers did not state if the participating designers have to make advertisement for the competition such as sending e-mails, post-cards etc for promotive purposes.
It is not clearly indicated if the winner designers need or given chance to work for the organizers or sponsors.
The organizers did not indicate if winners need or given chance to sell their designs to organizer.

Winners' Obligations

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The webpage address (URL) of the complete general terms of the competition is not given.

CERTIFICATES AND TROPHIES

It is not clearly written in the competition call if the organizers would send printed certificates for joining the contest.
It is not clearly written in the competition call if the organizers would send printed certificates for winning an award.
The organizers did not disclose if the winners would receive an award or trophy.
No information is available regarding if the competition permits the use of a winners logo or not.

PRESS RELEASE

A press-release to distribute to press members, bloggers, magazine editors etc was unfortunetely not provided.

DESIGN BRIEF

The design brief is not specified, you should check the competition webpage to learn about what to design.

Brief Text

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The webpage address (URL) of the complete brief & call for designs text is not given.

RESULTS

Expect this section to be filled only after the competition is finalized and results anounced to the public. Results have either not been announced yet or not available in this page. Please check the competition website in case they might have already been posted there.

Results & Pages

Winners

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The webpage address link (URL) of the page that lists other winners was not disclosed.

PR Results

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The webpage address (URL) of the page that lists the complete press appearances and media covarage of the competition is not disclosed.

DESCRIPTION

A Detailed description was not provided.

REVIEW

We do not have an editorial review of this design competition.

WEBSITE

We do not have a website excerpt for this competition.

IMAGES, POSTERS AND BANNERS

Logo of the competition is uploaded, see below. Competition trophy is not updloaded. Competition poster is uploaded, see below. Website screenshot is not updloaded. Competition banner is uploaded, see below. Competition big banner is not updloaded.

DATES & TIMELINE

This is a Straight, Single Step competition, , further timeline details for
Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa 2015 Competition is given below.
For a detailed time line check: here.

Detailed Timeline

Registrations Start

: Thursday 1st of January 2015

Registrations End

: Monday 31st of August 2015

Submissions Start

:
Thursday 1st of January 2015

Submissions End

:
Monday 31st of August 2015

Jury Meeting

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Wednesday 30th of September 2015

Results Announced

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Monday 30th of November 2015

Results Publicized

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Friday 30th of October 2015

Early-Bird Entry*

: Monday 31st of August 2015

Standard Entry*

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Monday 31st of August 2015

Late Entry*

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Monday 31st of August 2015

* End-of-period dates for paid competitions only.

FEES & COSTS

This is a paid competition. The early-bird enterence and processing fees for this competition is not given.The standard enterence and processing fees for this competition is not given.The late-entry period enterence and processing fees for this competition is not given.We do not know if this competition would send an invoice or not.
Webpage address link (URL) of the complete list of any other fees or payments is not given.

Fees and Costs

Gala Night Fee

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N / A

Exhibition Fee

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N / A

PR Campaign Fee

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N / A

Transportation Fee

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N / A

Publishing Fee

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Yearbook Fee

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N / A

*All the fees given in this section are normally in EUROs, if you would like to convert the fees to any other currency such as USD etc, click here.

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